Apartheid and the struggles in life of the black people

Programme Director, Comrades, Brothers and Sisters, The effects of colonialism past and present are visible all over Africa. History is a clock that tells a people their historical time of the day. History is the compass that wise people use to locate themselves on the map of the world. What they have been, where they have been, where they are now, but most importantly, where they still must go.

It was the yearfive years after Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison. While my parents weren't wealthy, my dad was an engineer, and a graduate of the University of Cape Town. We had a pretty little townhouse in the suburbs of Cape Town.

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I had good food to eat. There were dolls to play with, and presents under the tree at Christmas. I went to ballet lessons, and my lovely preschool down the road. I had never heard the name 'Nelson Mandela'. I was too little to understand what was happening in my country, or what apartheid meant.

I got the faintest glimpse every couple of weeks, when we rode the train into Cape Town to meet my father for lunch.

Apartheid through a child's eyes Those were the only days that I actually saw black children. But it was always from far away, or through the window of a train. In the first six years of my life, I never got to speak or play with a child whose skin was a different colour than mine.

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On those train rides, my mother and I waited on a platform designated for 'whites' waiting to board the train cars for 'whites'. There was a separate platform for 'blacks'. Once on the train, we'd pass parks and beaches clearly marked 'white' and 'black'. In Cape Town, if we needed to go to the bank, we'd approach a different counter than families with black children.

How could I not have known what was happening? Why didn't I do something, or at least, ask more questions? I see children here in Canada who not much older than I was then, with the courage to speak out against poverty and injustice.

Some even start campaigns and fund-raising drives in their quest to make a difference. What was wrong with me? Perhaps it was because I only realized what apartheid meant once we moved to Canada -- by experiencing something very different.

That's not to say things are perfect here. Many of my friends from different cultural backgrounds have experienced struggle, discrimination and bullying, even here.

But at least we can talk together, and share our stories and perspectives. At least we can listen to each other, and try to understand.

The legacy of apartheid In my first year at Queen's University, inNelson Mandela was finally released from prison. My classmates were euphoric about what this would mean for South Africa.

My optimism was more cautious, and this frustrated my friends. I don't understand why you can't be more excited.

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I wanted to believe that everything would change! But I couldn't forget what apartheid had been like, how it had kept people from getting to know one another.

How could the critical conversations even begin, when the people at the table were complete strangers to one another? Crossing the train tracks A few years later, I returned to South Africa with my husband for a visit.

I remember driving back from a few days in the wine region, where we'd enjoyed comfortable accommodation and wonderful meals.

As we drove back to where my cousins lived, we took a route I'd never driven before. I'll never forget rounding a bend, and seeing it all spread out ahead of us in the distance: I remember gulping for air, as though someone had punched me in the stomach.

It was the first time I had actually 'crossed the tracks' to see what was on the other side.Desmond Tutu first sought out to be a doctor but was unable to afford the tuition. Did You Know?

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Not according to Leah Penniman, a young, black farmer living in the South End of Albany, NY where a modern day apartheid is taking place. At the root of this issue?

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Contact Author Whites against apartheid The death this past weekend of anti-apartheid cleric Dr Nico Smithcoming so soon after the death of another anti-apartheid struggle veteran, Sheena Duncanhas made more urgent for me the writing of a series of Hubs which I have long planned.

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Please note this page is still under construction. The brutal policy of apartheid is applied before the eyes of the nations of the world.

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Introduction The heroic upsurge of the Azanian South African people against the racist South African regime has been going on for well over a year and a half.

Tutu was the first black person to be appointed the Anglican dean of Johannesburg in Did You. Many Americans who live far from our major cities and who have no firsthand knowledge of the realities to be found in urban public schools seem to have the rather vague and general impression that the great extremes of racial isolation that were matters of grave national significance some thirty-five or forty years ago have gradually but steadily .

The anti-Apartheid struggle forms a significant part of South Africa’s history since it signifies the moment when people of color across the Rainbow Nation decided to revolt against policies of.

Nov 29, · The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you were old or young, man or woman, in a village or a town, it didn't matter. Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in Apartheid called for the separate development of the different racial groups in .